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[arch-general] change in mount behaviour?
by G. Schlisio 04 Feb '12

04 Feb '12

Hi all, i used to keep a folder in /media to serve as mountpoint if some manual mountis was needed. since some days, this folder disappeared, even if created again. is there any change in filesystems, kernel or whatsoever changing behavior there, is it intended (if so, why?) or a bug? every hint appreciated. georg

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[arch-general] Merge /bin to /usr/bin?
by Stephen E. Baker 03 Feb '12

03 Feb '12

A few days ago it was announced that Fedora 17 will be merging several root directories into their /usr equivalents and using symlinks for compatibility. The announcement can be found here: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.devel/158708 There are several good reasons for the change, outlined at: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/TheCaseForTheUsrMerge I wondered if this was something Arch was considering as well. Stephen E. Baker

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[arch-general] qtwebkit and html5 video
by Shridhar Daithankar 03 Feb '12

03 Feb '12

Hello All, this has been bothering me for some time, so just posting for wider audience. Facts, all applicable to rekonq and konqueror with webkit part - I have qtwebkit,kwebkitpart and rekonq installed - I am on youtube html5 demo trial. youtube.com/html5 reports support for webm and h.264 support - html5test.com reports video element support with MPEG-4/H.264/Ogg Theora/WebM. I have gstreamer phonon backend with most of the codecs installed. - youtube html5 video does not work. I get a progress bar but no video frames. example URL tested http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTA1MTQ as it has couple of youtube videos embedded - videos from vimeo.com does not play either. google isn't helpful. and there is no bug in arch linux bug db. Does anybody else experience this too? -- Regards Shridhar

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[arch-general] Old pkgbuilds need to be removed from abs tree
by sitquietly 01 Feb '12

01 Feb '12

I've noticed that /var/abs/extra still contains kdeutils and kdeaccessibility, with PKGBUILDs for the old 4.7.4 version. Those have been replaced in kde 4.8.0 with a set of packages kdeutils-* and kdeaccessibility-* The obsolete directories should be removed from abs/extra. I build all packages from source code on my system using my own set of scripts. For example a daily update is pacman -Qqu | order | unify | build --merge --edit --save so I'm the guy to notice garbage in the abs tree (my scripts read the PKGBUILDs in the abs tree and my own tree to build a database of dependencies, including make deps, providers, splits, and package groups). It has happened once in a while that an updated PKGBUILD doesn't show up in abs, or is missing files, without manual intervention on someone's part. I've filed bug reports against several such packages, which seem to mystify the package maintainer, who then tells some other guy that there is NO problem with his package, who apparently moves the missing stuff into abs and makes me happy. , It also happens as with kdeutils and kdeaccessibility, that an obsolete directory is not removed from abs. It seems that the process for syncing the abs tree to the master repository needs fixing. The ABS, providing the build scripts for all packages, is a key feature of Archlinux for me and I greatly appreciate the work required to make it available.

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[arch-general] Google earth
by P Nikolic 01 Feb '12

01 Feb '12

Well Kmail seems to be a little better behaved now thanks for the help . Now got Google earth installed (loads of 32 bit stuff added from multilib) now it starts up then bombs out after a few seconds with an error report as Major Version 6 Minor Version 2 Build Number 0000 Build Date Jan 23 2012 Build Time 17:11:07 OS Type 3 OS Major Version 3 OS Minor Version 2 OS Build Version 2 OS Patch Version 0 Crash Signal 11 Crash Time 1328125391 Up Time 5.39584 Stacktrace from glibc: ./libgoogleearth_free.so(+0xc0af3)[0xf7681af3] ./libgoogleearth_free.so(+0xc0c73)[0xf7681c73] [0xf7707400] anyone got this working right up to date on kernel KDE ect ect uname -a Linux 7-of-9 3.2.2-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Jan 26 08:40:20 CET 2012 x86_64 AMD Phenom(tm) 9600B Quad-Core Processor AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux 7-of-9:/ # Cheers Pete .

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[arch-general] Gtk update messed up thunderbird thread marker triangles??
by David C. Rankin 01 Feb '12

01 Feb '12

Guys, It seems one of the latest updates did something to the little triangle thread markers in thunderbird that show when a thread has responses. Now the triangles for collapsed threads look like little squiglies. The downward facing triangles showing expanded threads look OK. Anybody else see this? Does this look like a Gtk issue or an issue with thunderbird? This screenshot shows what I'm seeing: [64k] http://www.3111skyline.com/dl/img/misc/tbird-triangles-arch.jpg -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] problem installing custom kernel
by Madhurya Kakati 01 Feb '12

01 Feb '12

Hi, I tried compiling and installing the linux kernel from ABS. I modified the PKGBUILD file as mentioned in the wiki. The kernel compiles fine and the pkg gets built with the name linux-custom as specified in the PKGBUILD. But when I try to install it I get the following error: $ sudo pacman -Uv linux-custom-3.2.2-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz Root : / Conf File : /etc/pacman.conf DB Path : /var/lib/pacman/ Cache Dirs: /var/cache/pacman/pkg/ Lock File : /var/lib/pacman/db.lck Log File : /var/log/pacman.log GPG Dir : /etc/pacman.d/gnupg/ Targets : linux-custom-3.2.2-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz loading packages... resolving dependencies... looking for inter-conflicts... :: linux-custom and linux are in conflict (kernel26). Remove linux? [y/N] N error: unresolvable package conflicts detected error: failed to prepare transaction (conflicting dependencies) :: linux-custom and linux are in conflict I have attached the PKGBUILD. -- Madhurya Kakati () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments

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[arch-general] Kmail 2 problems
by P Nikolic 01 Feb '12

01 Feb '12

Hi .. I am getting the following error on mail check Local Folders: Error opening: This folder is missing . I also get complaints about unable to delete (long number) on Kmail2 startup not sure if it is related but i have also had big problems with Akondai when trying to add my saved calenders with warnings of file on disc has been changed writing backup file i wound up with over 3000 files in a few mins had hell of a job dealing with that Pete . Sorry if this has landed trwice but i dont think kmail is working correctly

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[arch-general] Kmail2 errors
by Peter Nikolic 31 Jan '12

31 Jan '12

Hi .. I am getting the following error on mail check Local Folders: Error opening: This folder is missing . I also get complaints about unable to delete (long number) on Kmail2 startup not sure if it is related but i have also had big problems with Akondai when trying to add my saved calenders with warnings of file on disc has been changed writing backup file i wound up with over 3000 files in a few mins had hell of a job dealing with that Pete .

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[arch-general] Sudo Vulnerability
by Kevin Chadwick 31 Jan '12

31 Jan '12

http://www.sudo.ws/sudo/alerts/sudo_debug.html Is sudo on arch built with? -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 I couldn't find it in makepkg.conf anyway? -- Kc

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